Method and system balancing net savings, resources and claims into retirement

1. A method of summarizing household resources and claims through a future lifetime as of a particular date, thereby enabling a household to balance the claims against the resources over a time horizon, the method including: accessing a collection of data structures in computer readable memory, including a savings object adapted to represent net savings cash flows prior to retirement; a plurality of financial asset objects adapted to represent positions in financial assets and associated cash flows, if any, and a plurality of household expense objects adapted to represent various post-retirement household expenses, the household expense objects including at least expense amounts and expense timing, and a desirability rating for a particular household expense; and evaluating using a processor and summarizing for a particular date present values of resources and claims over a predicted lifetime, the resources and claims including at least the net savings cash flows prior to retirement, the positions in financial assets and the post-retirement household expenses, the summary organized into groups of the resources and the claims, wherein a base level of the household expenses are grouped together as obligations, other of the household expenses are organized by the desirability ratings of the household expenses, thereby representing at least primary and secondary goals among the household expenses, and a residual (or deficit) of the resources exceeding (or failing to satisfy) the claims is reported, thereby reflecting wealth building.

2. The method of claim 1 , further including: accessing at least one real estate object adapted to represent a real estate holding and associated cash flows, if any; and evaluating using a processor and summarizing for the particular date further includes the real estate holding and associated cash flows, wherein mortgage payments are grouped with the obligations.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the plurality of household expense objects are further adapted to represent alternative levels of funding for the particular household expense; and using the alternative levels of funding to organize at least the primary and secondary goals for the household expenses.

4. The method of claim 2 , further including: repeatedly running a probabilistic simulation to stress test performance of at least the financial assets; and applying a plurality of a-priori rules about liquidating the positions in the financial assets and modifying the household expenses to satisfy the claims.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the stress tested by the probabilistic simulation includes economic conditions.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the stress tested by the probabilistic simulation includes at least one of disability or catastrophic illness.

7. The method of claim 4 , further including executing the a-priori rules in the probabilistic simulation based on a state of the simulation when a choice is to be made, without previewing a future course of the probabilistic simulation.

8. The method of claim 2 , further including: accessing the collection of data structures in computer readable memory, wherein at least the financial asset objects and the real estate object are adapted to include tax attribute data; and evaluating using the processor tax consequences at least of liquidating positions in the financial assets and using financial equity in the real estate; wherein the summary includes the tax consequences as obligations.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the accessing the collection of data structures in computer readable memory, further includes at least one educational expense object that represents at least a beneficiary name, a school name, a type of educational institution for the school, expected years of attendance, a current cost of attendance, and alternative levels of funding toward a future cost of attendance; and evaluating using the processor future educational expenses represented by the educational expense object, wherein the summary includes the alternative levels of funding the future educational expenses with the primary and secondary goals.

10. The method of claim 9 , further including automatically adjusting the current cost of attendance using an index of educational cost increases, consistent with at least the type of educational institution and the expected years of attendance.

11. A method of summarizing household resources and claims through a future lifetime as of a particular date, thereby enabling a household to balance the claims against the resources over a time horizon, the method including: accessing a collection of data structures in computer readable memory, including a savings object adapted to represent net savings cash flows prior to retirement; a plurality of financial asset objects adapted to represent positions in financial assets and associated cash flows, if any, and a plurality of household expense objects adapted to represent various post-retirement household expenses, the household expense objects including at least alternative levels of funding and expense timing for a particular household expense; and evaluating using a processor and summarizing for a particular date present values of resources and claims over a predicted lifetime, the resources and claims including at least the net savings cash flows prior to retirement, the positions in financial assets and the post-retirement household expenses, the summary organized into groups of the resources and the claims, wherein a base level of the household expenses are grouped as obligations, other of the household expenses are organized by the alternative levels of funding, thereby representing at least primary and secondary goals among the household expenses, and and a residual (or deficit) of the resources exceeding (or failing to satisfy) the claims is reported, thereby reflecting wealth building.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein: accessing the collection of data structures further includes accessing at least one human capital object adapted to represent an employment prospect of a household member, associated cash flows, if any, and preferred dates of partial retirement and full retirement; and evaluating and summarizing the resources and claims further includes the employment prospect.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the human capital object is further adapted to represent alternative dates of the early retirement, further including treating the early retirement as a claim, wherein the summary organized into groups includes the alternative dates of the early retirement with the primary and secondary goals.

14. The method of claim 12 , further including repeatedly running a probabilistic simulation to stress test performance of at least the financial assets and the employment prospect, including applying a plurality of a-priori rules about liquidating the positions in the financial assets and modifying the household expenses to satisfy the claims.

15. The method of claim 14 , further including: accessing industry sector data that identifies industry sectors of the financial asset objects and the employment prospect; and when running the probabilistic simulation, taking into account covariance among the industry sectors.

16. The method of claim 15 , further including, when running the probabilistic simulation, taking into account risks of unemployment related to the employment prospect.

17. The method of claim 14 , further including executing the a-priori rules in the probabilistic simulation based on a state of the simulation when a choice is to be made, without previewing a future course of the probabilistic simulation.

18. The method of claim 12 , wherein: the accessing the collection of data structures in computer readable memory further includes at least one real estate object adapted to represent a real estate holding and cash flows, if any, whether the real estate is a residence, and one or more household members' preferred disposition of the real estate; and the evaluating the present values of the resources and claims further includes the real estate, wherein mortgage payments for the real estate are grouped with obligations.

19. The method of claim 12 , further including: accessing at least one educational expense object that is adapted to represent at least a beneficiary name and alternative levels of funding toward a future cost of attendance; and evaluating using a processor and summarizing further includes the educational expense object, wherein the summary includes the alternative levels of educational expenses with the primary and secondary goals.

20. The method of claim 19 , further including automatically adjusting the current cost of attendance using an index of educational cost increases, consistent with at least the type of educational institution and the expected years of attendance.

21. A non-transitory machine readable storage memory that stores computer instructions that instruct a processor to: access a collection of data structures in computer readable memory, including a savings object adapted to represent net savings cash flows prior to retirement; a plurality of financial asset objects adapted to represent positions in financial assets and associated cash flows, if any, at least one real estate object adapted to represent a real estate holding and associated cash flows, if any, a plurality of household expense objects adapted to represent various post-retirement household expenses, the household expense objects including at least alternative levels of funding and expense timing for a particular household expense; and evaluate and summarize for a particular date present values of resources over a predicted lifetime and claims, the resources and claims including at least net savings cash flows prior to retirement, the positions in financial assets, the real estate, and the post-retirement household expenses, the summary organized into groups of the resources and the claims, wherein a base level of the household expenses and obligations including mortgage payments for the real estate are grouped together as obligations, other of the household expenses are organized by the alternative levels of funding, thereby representing at least primary and secondary goals among the household expenses, and and a residual (or deficit) of the resources exceeding (or failing to satisfy) the claims is reported, thereby reflecting wealth building.

22. A non-transitory machine readable storage memory that stores computer instructions that instruct a processor to: access a collection of data structures in computer readable memory, including a savings object adapted to represent net savings cash flows prior to retirement; a plurality of financial asset objects adapted to represent positions in financial assets and associated cash flows, if any, at least one human capital object adapted to represent an employment prospect of a household member, including at least expected future job-related earnings, and preferred dates of partial retirement and full retirement, a plurality of household expense objects adapted to represent various post-retirement household expenses, the household expense objects including at least expense amounts and expense timing, and a desirability rating for a particular household expense; and evaluate using a processor and summarizing for a particular date present values of resources and claims over a predicted lifetime, the resources and claims including at least the net savings cash flows prior to retirement, the positions in financial assets, the employment prospect and the household expenses, the summary organized into groups of the resources and the claims, wherein a base level of the household expenses as obligations, other of the household expenses are organized by the desirability ratings of the household expenses, thereby representing at least primary and secondary goals among the household expenses, and and a residual (or deficit) of the resources exceeding (or failing to satisfy) the claims is reported, thereby reflecting wealth building.

23. The machine readable storage memory of claim 22 , further storing computer instructions that instruct a processor to repeatedly run a probabilistic simulation to evaluate performance of at least the financial assets and the employment prospect, including applying a plurality of a-priori rules about liquidating the positions in the financial assets and modifying the household expenses to satisfy the claims.

24. The machine readable memory of claim 22 , further storing computer instructions that instruct a processor, when running the probabilistic simulation, to take into account risks of unemployment related to the employment prospect.

25. A system including: a processor and memory coupled to the processor that stores computer instructions that instruct a processor to: access a collection of data structures in computer readable memory, including a savings object adapted to represent net savings cash flows prior to retirement; a plurality of financial asset objects adapted to represent positions in financial assets and associated cash flows, if any, at least one real estate object adapted to represent a real estate holding and associated cash flows, if any, and one or more household members' preferred disposition of the real estate, a plurality of household expense objects adapted to represent various post-retirement household expenses, the household expense objects including at least alternative levels of funding and expense timing for a particular household expense; and evaluate and summarize for a particular date present values of resources and claims over a predicted lifetime, the resources and claims including at least the net savings cash flows prior to retirement, the positions in financial assets, the real estate, the employment prospect and the post-retirement household expenses, the summary organized into groups of the resources and the claims, wherein a base level of the household expenses and obligations including mortgage payments for the real estate are grouped together as obligations, other of the household expenses are organized by the alternative levels of funding, thereby representing at least primary and secondary goals among the household expenses, and and a residual (or deficit) of the resources exceeding (or failing to satisfy) the claims is reported, thereby reflecting wealth building.

26. A system including: a processor and memory coupled to the processor that stores computer instructions that instruct the processor to: access a collection of data structures in computer readable memory, including a savings object adapted to represent net savings cash flows prior to retirement; a plurality of financial asset objects adapted to represent positions in financial assets and associated cash flows, if any, at least one human capital object adapted to represent an employment prospect of a household member, including at least expected future job-related earnings, and preferred dates of partial retirement and full retirement, a plurality of household expense objects adapted to represent various post-retirement household expenses, the household expense objects including at least expense amounts and expense timing, and a desirability rating for a particular household expense; and evaluate using a processor and summarizing for a particular date present values of resources and claims over a predicted lifetime, the resources and claims including at least the net savings cash flows prior to retirement, the positions in financial assets, the employment prospect and the post-retirement household expenses, the summary organized into groups of the resources and the claims, wherein a base level of the household expenses as obligations, other of the household expenses are organized by the desirability ratings of the household expenses, thereby representing at least primary and secondary goals among the household expenses, and and a residual (or deficit) of the resources exceeding (or failing to satisfy) the claims is reported, thereby reflecting wealth building.

27. The system of claim 26 , further storing computer instructions that instruct a processor to repeatedly run a probabilistic simulation to stress test performance of at least the financial assets and the employment prospect, including applying a plurality of a-priori rules about liquidating the positions in the financial assets and modifying the household expenses to satisfy the claims.

28. The system of claim 26 , further storing computer instructions that instruct a processor, when running the probabilistic simulation, to take into account risks of unemployment related to the employment prospect.